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ORDINANCES OF THE TRUSTEES, 
ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT 


UNIVERSITY OF NORTH-CAROLINA. 


RALEIGH: 
PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE RALEIGH REGISTER: 


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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 


AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE INTO ONE, THE SEVERAL ACTS OF 
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THIS STATE RELATIVE TO THE 
APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY, FOR THE 
GOVERNMENT THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 

(Passed at the Session of 1821.) 

Be it enacted, Sc. That John Haywood, Benjamin Smith, William 
Polk, Henry Potter, Archibald D. Murphey, Duncan Cameron, Joseph 
Caldwell, Thomas Winns, Edward Jones, James Webb, Henry Seawell, 
Calvin Jones, John D. Hawkins, Robert H. Jones, Jeremiah Slade, Jo- 
seph H. Bryan, Robert Williams, William Gaston, Thomas Brown, Fran- 
cis Locke, Montfort Stokes, Thomas Love, Archibald McBride, Atlas 
Jones, Lewis Williams, William M’Pheeters, Frederick Nash, Thomas 
Ruffin, James W. Clark, John Stanly, Bartlett Yancy, Leonard Hender-. 
son, John Branch, William Miller, Simmons J. Baker, George E. Bad- 
ger, Kemp Plummer, Thomas Bennehan, Willie P. Mangum, James Me- 
bane, John Witherspoon, John B. Baker, James Iredell, William Martin, 
Joseph B. Skinner, James C. Johnston, Enoch Sawyer, Alfred Moore, 
John D. Toomer, John Owen, Gabriel Holmes, Romulus M. Saunders, 
Lewis D. Schweinitz and Thomas P. Devereux, are hereby declared to 
be Trustees of the University of this State, and the successors of the Trus- 
tees appuinted by an Act of the General Assembly of this State, passed in 
the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “ An Act 
to establish a University in this State,” and that the appointment of the 
Trustees aforesaid is hereby confirmed, and they are declared to have all 
the power and authority heretofore conferred by law on the Trustees of 
the said Institution. 

2. Be it enacted, That the Board ef Trustees of the University shail 
consist of sixty-five members, all of whom shall be resident citizens of 
thie State. 


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3. Be it enacted, That the additional number of Trustees hereby au- 
thorized shall be elected by joint ballot of both Houses of the General As- 
sembly ; and that, hereafter, when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen 
in the said Board, by death, resignation, refusal to act, removal out of this 
State or other cause, it shall be the duty of the President of the Board to 
communicate, or cause te be communicated by the Secretary, to the Gen- 
eral Assembly, the said vacancy or vacancies, and thereupon, they shall 
elect, by joint ballot of both Houses, a suitable person or persons to fill the 
same. ; 

4. Be it enacted, That the Board of Trustees shall have power to va- 
cate the appointment and remove a Trustee for improper conduct, stating 
the cause of such removal on their journal; Provided, the same shall be 
done at an annual meeting of the Board, and that there shall be present 
at the doing thereof at least twenty of the members of the Board. 

5. Be.it enacted, That the Governor of this State for the time being 
shall be, and he is hereby declared to be President of the Board of Trus- 
tees of the University, and as such, shall preside at all the meetings of 
said Board at which he may be present; and if, by indisposition or other 
cause, the Governor shall be absent from any meeting of the Board, he 
may appoint, in writing, some other person, being a Trustee, to aet as 
President for the time being, and who shall preside accordingly : md if, 
at any time, the Governor shall be absent at the meeting of the Board, 
and shall not have appointed, as aforesaid, a President, it shall be lawful 

for the Board to appoint a President for the time being, who shall preige 
as such. 

6. Beit enacted, That there shali be an asia meeting of the Boald 
of Trustees during the Session of the General Assembly, in the City of 
Raleigh, and at such time and place as the President of the Board may 
appoint ; and at any of the annual meetings of the Board, any num- 
ber of Trustees, not less than seven, shall constitute a quorum, and be 
competent to exercise full power and authority to do the business of the 
Board; and the said Board, or the President thereof, shall have power 
to appoint special meetings of the Trustees at such time and place as in 
their opinion the interest of the Institution may require; but no special 
meeting shall have power to revoke or alter any order, resolution | -or vote 
of an annual meeting. 

7. Be it enacted, That in case the office of Secretary or Treasurer of 
the Board of Trustees of the University shall be vacant from any cause 
whatever, in the recess of the Board, tha President shall appoint a suita- 
ble person to fill the same, until the annual mecting ofthe Board of Trus- 


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tees, at which time the said Board shall elect a proper person to fill the 
said vacancy. 

8. Be it enacied, That the second section of an Act passed in the year 
one thousand eight hundred and five, entitled “An Act appointing the 
Governor for the time being President of the Board of Trustees of the 
Waiversity,” and that so much of the several Acts of the General Assem- 
bly of this State, as is inconsistent with this Act, be, and the same is here- 
by repealed ; and that this Act shall be in force from and after the ratifi- 
cation thereof, 


AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT, PASSED IN THE YEAR EIGHTEEN 
HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE, ENTITLED ‘‘AN ACT TO CON- 
SOLIDATE INTO ONE, THE SEVERAL ACTS OF THE GENERAL 
ASSEMBLY OF THIS STATE, RELATIVE TO THE APPOINTMENT 
OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY, FOR THE GOVERNMENT 
THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.” 

Ae (Passed at the Session of 1824.) 


Be it enacted, §:c., That the Board of Trustees, at their annual meet- 
ing, may, by resolution, vote or ordinance, from time to time, as to them 
shall seem meet, limit, control and restrain the business to be transacted, 
and the power to be possessed and exercised by special meetings of the 
Board, called according to the sixth section of the above recited act ; and 
the powers of such special meetings shall be limited, controlled and re- 
strained accordingly, And every order, vote, resolution, or other acts 
done, made or adopted by any special meeting, contrary to any order, 
resolution, vote or ordinance of the Board, at an annual meeting, shall be 
absolutely, to all intents and purposes, null and void. . : 


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AN ACT CONCERNING THE UNIVERSITY OF N. CAROLINA. 


1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Caro- 
lina, and it hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be 
unlawful for any merchant, shop-keeper, or other person at Chapel-THill, 
or within two miles thereof, to sell to any Student of the University, 

goods, wares, merchandise, spirituous liquors or wine, without the con- 
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ting; and if any contract for the sale of such articles shall be made, it ia 
hereby declared to te null and void, and no recovery shall be had thereon. 

2. No license shall be granted to retail spirituous liquors at Chapel- 
Hill, or within two miles thereof; any license obtained for that purpose 
shall be null and void, nor shall it be lawful for any person to give an 
electioneering treat or entertainment within two miles of the University 
of the State. 

3. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to exhibit any the- 
atrical, sleight of hand, or equestrian performances, dramatic recitations, 
rope or wire dancing, or natural or artificial curiosities, at Chapel-Hill, 
or within five miles thereof, without the special permission, in writing, 
of the Faculty. 

4, No person shall set up or keep up any billiard table, or other public 
table, constructed or erected for playing games of chance, by whatever 
name called. 

5, If any person or persons shall offend against the provisions of this 
Act, or any of them, he, she or they, thus offending, shall be liable to be 
indicted under this Act, and fined or imprisoned at the discretion of the 
Court, or under any general Act or Acts of the General Assembly, pro- 
hibiting said offences. 


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CRDINANCES OF THE TRUSTERS. 


(Adopted, January 2, 1835.) 


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 


Be it ordained, That a Committee of seven members of this Board 
(of whom the President shall, ex officio, be one) shall be appointed at 
every regular annual meeting of the Board, to be called “the Executive 
Committee of the Trustees of the University of North-Carolina,” a majority 
of whom shall form a quorum for transacting business: that all the 
duties herctofore assigned to, and powers vested in the Land Committee, 
the Committee of Appointments, and the Building Committee, be, and 
they are hereby assigned to, and vested in the Executive Committee 
hereby provided for. 

The Secretary of the Board of Trustees shall he Secretary of the Execu- 
tive Committee; he shall attend their meetings, and enter their proceedings 
in a regular Journal, to be kept for that purpose. 

The Executive Committee shall have power to make such contracts for 
the sale of the property and effects, both real and personal, of the Uni- 
versity, as they may deem best for the interest of the same. 

The Executive Committee shall have power to alter, change and regulate 
the course of studies and discipline prescribed at the University, and to dis- 
miss any Professor or Tutor for such cause as they may deem sufficient. 

All the Acts of the Executive Committee, under the authority of this 
Ordinance, shall be fully stated in the Journal of this Committee, and shall 
be laid before the Trustees at the next regular annual meeting of the 
Board. 

All former Ordinances and Resolutions of the Board of Trustees, ap- 
pointing a Committee of Appointments, a Land Committee and a Build- 
ing Committee, are hereby repealed. 

The Executive Committee to be appointed under this Ordinance, shalt 
have power to fill all vacancies happening in their own body. 


) LAWS 
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF 
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(Revised, September 11, 1838.) 
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CHAPTER I. 


Of the Faculty. 


The Faculty of the University of North-Carolina shall be composed of 
the President, Professors, and Tutors ; a majority of whom being as- 
sembled, after due notice given by the President, or presiding Professor, 
to all the members, shall be competent to the transaction of business. 


2. Every matter brought before the Faculty, shall be decided by votes, 
and it shall be the additional privilege of the President, or presiding Pro- 
fessor, to give a casting vote, when otherwise there would be a tie. 


3. The Professors shall take rank according to the dates of their ap- 
pointment. 


4, The President may convoke the Faculty at his discretion, and the 
Faculty may also meet by adjournment. 


5. The opinion or vote of any member of the Faculty, shall not be made 
known directly or indirectly to any one who is not a member of the body, 
except when express order shall be given to that effect Py a unanimous 
decision of the Faculty. 


6. A member of the Faculty shall not be a sitting meee of any So- 
ciety of Students. 


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7. It shall be the duty of ever y member of the Faculty individually, to 
be vigilant in carrying into effect every law of the College: and to report 
to the President or to the Faculty, such transgressions as ought to be pun- 
ished by that body. 


8. The Faculty shall keep a record of their proceedings, the senior 
Yutor shall be their Clerk, and make a fair and regular entry of their 


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transactions in a book kept for that purpose. This record shall be laid be- 
fore the Board of Trustees, when required by them. 


9. No act of of the Faculty, which j is not recorded by their order, shall 
be congidered valid. 


it. It shall be the ddinty of the Tutors to reside in the buildings of the 
University, to maintain order and decorum among the students, and to 
assist under the direction of the President and Professors, in the instruc- 
. tion of the classes. 


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Wal. The Professors and Tutors shall, in succession, examine the rooms 
_ of the College, at least once a week, and see that cleanliness and neatness 
be preserved. In these visitations, they shall take an account of the 
locks, doors, Uiilows and furniture, with the names of the gaNabitants i in 
each room. When damage of any description in the College buildings 
is at any time observed by a member of the Faculty, it shall be his duty 


to report it as soon afterwards as possible to the Bursar, that it may be 
immediately repaired. 


12. It shall be the duty of each member of the Paealty, when he is to 
hear a class recite, to go to the Recitation Room, and take possession of 
it a reasonable time before the hour for the bell to ring, to prevent assem- 
blages of Students before the proper time, and to see that the Recitation 
Room is in a proper condition for the reception of the class. The reci-» 
tation of the class shall continue through the.hour, or at least until the 
bell shall give notice of its expiration. 


13. Every Professor shall have a room appropriated to him in the Col- 
lege. It is expected of the Professors, as pertinent to their office, to pass” 
as much of their time every day in these rooms, as they conveniently can, 
to aid in the order and instruction of the College. The Board of Trus- 
tees will also look to the Professors to visit in succession the rooms of 
the Students at night, as often as convenient. 


14, The Faculty of the University, that is the President and Profes- 
sors, by and with the consent of the Trustees, shall have the power of 
conferring all such degrees or marks of literary distinction as are usually 
conferred in Colleges or Universities, © 


15. Immediately after every annual Commencement, the Faculty shall: 
cause to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, a certi- 
ficate signed by the Clerk of the Faculty, containing a specification of the 
persons graduated, and of the degrees respectively conferred upon them, 


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CHAPTER If. 2 
Of admission into the University. 

1, To take regular standing as a Student in the University, a candi- 
date must sustain an approved examination before the Faculty, on such 
parts of the plan of education as have been already prosecuted by the 
elass into which he would enter. 

2. To become a Student on partial or irregular standing, the candidate, 
if he be not twenty-one years of age, must exhibit a certificate from his 
parent or guardian, that he is permitted to enter on such terms. If he 
would prosecute any branch of science, into which a class is already ad- 
vanced, he must be examined with approbation on such parts of the sci- 
ence as the class has already completed. 

3. Every Student, at his admission, shall obtain a copy of the Laws: 
from the Bursar, and a certificate with the name of the President or pre- 
siding Professor, signed by himself, of the Student’s regular admission 
into the University; and these shall be at all times, a necessary testi- 
mony of his being a Student, to be shown when called for, to any mem- 
ber of the Faculty. 

4, Every person, on admission into the ea shall pay the Col- 
lege dues for the session in advance. 

5. If a Student shall enter before the session shall be half elapsed, he 
shall pay for the whole session; if he shall arrive at the middle of the 
session, or after it, he shall pay for half the session only ; but room rent 
shall always be paid for the whole sessien. 

6. If any person whose object it is to become a Student, shall fail to re- 
port himself to the President, on the first day after his arrival, he shall be 
excluded, if his reasons fer delay be deemed invalid by the Faculty. 

7. Any native of the State, desirous of prosecuting his studies in the 
University, who shall furnish satisfactory evidence of good talents, studious 
habits and exemplary ‘morals, and who shall be unable to defray the ex- 
pense of tuition, may, at the discretion of the Faculty, be admitted to all 
the recitations of the Classes, free from any demand for tuition. Such 
beneficiaries may occupy the rooms of the College, free of rent, when the 
rooms are not necessary for the accommodation of such Students as pay 
tuition and room rent. 

8. The Faculty shall be authorised, in all cases, when, from examina- 
tion, reasonable hopes can be entertained that deficiencies can be made 
up, to admit applicants for a single session, to whom regular standing shall 
be awarded at the end of that time, if the individual shall, upon exami- 
nation, be found entitled to it. 


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9. An applicant shall not ordinarily be admitted into the University 
under the age of sixteen; but any applicant exhibiting in the opinion. of 
the Faculty, the requisite strength and maturity of physical and mental 
constitution, and ample acquirements, and producing satisfactory testimo- 
nials of established moral character and steady habits, may be admitted, 
in the sound discretion of the Faculty, though he may not have attained 
this age. , 


CHAPTER III. 
Of the Bursarship. 


One of the Professors shall be appointed Bursar of the University. It 
shall be his duty to receive from the Students the money or Crafts for mo- 
ney they may bring with them, and disburse the same in paying the Board, 
Tuition fees, College dues, and other necessary expenses of the Students. 
He shall keep an account of the money received of, or for, and disbursed, 
for each Student, and at the close of each session, he shall render a copy 

‘of such account to the Parent or Guardian of each Student, and pay the 
balance (if any there be) to such Parent or Guardian, or to his or her 
written order. 

2. Each Student, on his arrival at the University, shall pay over to the 
Bursar all money, or drafts for money, which may be committed to him 
for the payment of Cellege expenses ; and for his so doing, a be con 
sidered as acting under a pledge of honor. 

3. The Bursar shall be allowed five dollars for receiving and dhatiikiiie 
the money of each Student, which shall be paid at the close of each ses- 
sion, by the Treasurer of the University. 

4. No Student of the University shall, during the session of College, 
under any pretence, contract any debt whatsoever; and if any Student 
violate this Ordinance, or if the Parent or Guardian of any such Student, 
or any other person in his or her behalf, shall pay or satisfy any debt so 
contracted by any such Student, such Student shall be forthwith dismissed 
from the University. - 


CHAPTER IV. 
Collegiate Duties and Restrictions. 
1. The business of the University shall commence without delay, on 
the first day of the session. 
2. From the 1st of November to the 15th of February, morning prayers 
shall be at a quarter before 7 o’clock; the rest of the year, morning 


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prayers shall be at sunrise. From the first of Beptember to the first of 
May, the hours of study in the forenoon shall be from 9 till 12, and from 
2 till 5 in the afternoon ;. and the bell shall be rung .for summoning the 
Students to their rooms at 8 o’clock in the evening. Through the other 
part of the year, the hours of study in the forenoon shall be from half past 
8 till 12, and from 8 till 6 in the afternoon; and the bell shall be rung in 
the evening at 9 o’clock. 

3. Every student shall regularly and punctually attend the recitation of 

his class at the place appointed by his instructer, and at ‘the ringing of the 
bell to give him notice. He is not to be at the door of the recitation 
room, nor within it, nor loitering about the doors or passages of the build- 
ings, before such notice is given. His Professor or Tutor shall call him 
to account for absence or delay, or neglect of preparation on the subjects 
assigned, and shall be the judge of his excuse. If a good reason be not 
shown for the delinquency, he may be cited before the Faculty to answer 
for it. \ 
4. In the computation of absences from prayers and recitations, twa 
tardinesses will be considered and marked as one absence, and retiring’ 
from the Recitation room during the progress of recitation will also be 
considered equivalent to an absence, and reported accordingly. 

5. Whenever the absences of a student other than those occasioned by 
sickness or consequent upon permission either from prayers or recitation, 
shall exceed in any one month one fourth the whole number which such 
student was bound to attend, the fact shall be reported to his parent or 
guardian, with a request that he be forthwith .withdrawn from the Insti- 
tution, or he shall be dismissed, at the discretion of the Faculty. 

6. Every student shall observe a strict propriety of conduct at recita- 
tion or lecture ; refraining from every thing which shall interrupt busi- 
ness, or divert the attention of others ; he shall not recline or lounge up- 
on the benches, nor be employed in reading newspapers, nor any book 
or paper whatever, except such as the Professor or Tutor at the time shall 
direct. It is the duty of the student to attend exclusively to the subjects 
of lecture or recitation, as they proceed with a view to his own improve- 
ment and to that of the class, For gross or persevering violations of these 
rules of decorum, he may be forthwith dismissed from the room, when his 
instructer shall deem it necessary. : 

7. For the improvement of the students in public speaking, two or more 
of them.shall each deliver an oration, every evening immediately after 
prayers, on the stage in the public hall: and to this duty they shall be 
called in alphabetical rotation ; nor shall any student be exempted from 


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it, except for natural impediments, or other disqualifications, of which 
the Faculty may judge. The members of the Senior Class shall be ex- 
cused from these exercises, and instead of them, shall pronounce at sta- 
ted times, during each session, two orations of their own composition, one 
of which shall be at the commencement. 

8: Should any student be absent from examination, he may be sum- 
moned before the Faculty to show the reasons of such absence, and he 
shall be examined publicly by the Faculty, before he shall be permitted to 
join his class. 

9. No student shall absent himself from the University during the ses- 
sion, without permission first obtained from the President, or in his ab- 
sence from the presiding Professor. But leave of absence from recitation 
may be granted to a student by his Professor or Tutor. 

10. If any student shall be habitually indolent or inattentive to business, 
or absent from prayers, recitation or public worship, or at any other time 
when it shall be his duty to attend, he shall be subject to penalty accord- 
ing to the aggravation of his delinquency. 

11. Ifa student at an examination be found deficient, hd may be pub- 
licly mentioned as a bad scholar by the Faculty or Trustees, admonished 
to greater diligence, or put into such class as shall suit his standing. 

12. On the day of commencement, the candidates for degrees, shall 
perform such exercises as shall be appointed them, and no candidate shall 
decline the exercise assigned him, under penalty of being refused his 
diploma. 

13. Every person obtaining a diploma, shall pay to the President of the 
University, for the degree of Bachelor of Arts four dollars, and for the 
degree of Master of Arts, five. 

14, Nothing indecent, profane or immoral, shail at any time be deliv- 
ered on the public stage, under such penalty as the Faculty or Trustees 
shall think necessary. And with a view to preserve all public exercises 
of the students from impropriety of any kind, every student, during the 
whole of his senior year, and previously to his commencement perform- 
ances, especially, shall show to the President or presiding Professor, or to 
some officer designated by him, the whole of what he proposes to speak, 
and shall not fail to observe such corrections as shall be made, and if any 
student pronounce any thing in public of a censurable nature, in contra- 
diction to the directions or corrections of the officer to whom he has shown 
his piece, the President or presiding Professor may stop him on the pub- 
lic stage, and_he shall be otherwise censured as the Trustees or Faculty 
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15. If any student shall cut, or injure the buildings or furniture of the 
College, or in any manner disfigure or deface them, especially with ob- 
scenity, profaneness or vulgarity, he shall beside making good the dam- 
age, be subject to such other punishment as may be judged necessary. 

16. The degree of Bachelor of Arts shall not be conferred on any mem- 
ber of the College, until he shall have been a student at least one year; 
but the honorary degree of Bachelor of Arts, may be conferred agreeably 
to former custom. 

17. When a student occupies a room at the beginning of a session, he 
shall continue in it until the end of the session, unless a change be per- 
mitted or directed by the Faculty. 

18. A student shall not be permitted to make any alterations in the 
studies which he has undertaken to prosecute in any session, until the 
session shall expire. 

19. There shall be no ball playing in or among the College buildings 
or against the walls. All athletic exercises must be kept at a distance, so 
as to prevent damage to the buildings and interruption to study. 


CHAPTER V. 
Of the Moral and Religious conduct of the ee and 
their conduct towards the Faculty. ' 


1. If any student shall deny the being of a God, or the divine authority 
of the Holy Scriptures, or shall assert, and endeavor to propagate among 
the students any principle subversive of the Christian religion, he shall be 
dismissed. 

2. Every student, whether he live in College or in the village, shal! at- 
tend public prayers morning and evening in the Chapel, and while at- 
tending shall refrain from all noise, conducting himself with such rev- 
erence and decorum as are suited to these sacred services. On Sunday it 
shall be the duty of every student to be present atthe reading or delivery 
of a sermon in the Chapel, at the hour appointed by the Faculty for that 
purpose. No whispering, talking, reading, laughing or indecent beha- 
viour of anv kind shall be allowed on,such occasions. Ci 

3. The students shall attend such instructions in morals or religion, as 
their Professors and Tutors, or the Faculty jointly shall appoint on Sun- 
day. And if any student absent himself, or evade such instructions, he 
shall be punished by his instructer, or by the Faculty, according to his 
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4, At all times the students shalt deport and express themselves res- 
pectfully towards the Faculty, and every member of it. Any deficiency 
in this duty shall be considered as peculiarly in conflict with the laws and 
principles essential to a College, and shall be punished accordingly. 

5. If a student making application for a privilege or immunity to one 
member of the Faculty, be refused, he shall not go to another member with 
the same request without informing him of the fact. His application — 
however, may be renewed, if he shall think proper, to the Faculty as a 
body. 

6. A Student shall not possess nor expose to another any book or pic- 
ture that is impious or obscene. 

7. No insulting language or treatment shall be offered by a Student or 
any number of students, to the people of the village, the country around 
the University, or of any other place. , 

8. If any Student or Students shall destroy or trespass on the property 
in the village or elsewhere, the authority of the College shall inflict an ex- 
emplary punishment on him or them, and any combination to prevent the 
execution of the civil law shall be severely punished. 

9. A Student shall not go into the village on any account in the: 
hours of study, without leave from some member of the Faculty. 

10. No Student shall absent himself from the University, nor shall he 
attend any election without leave, unless it be to exercise the right of suf- 
frage. 

11. No Student shall make or attend horse races, nor bet upon them. 
They shall not keep fowls, nor in any manner participate in sporting with 
them. 

12. A Student shall not engage in a game of hazard, nor shall he make: 
any bet. 

13. No Student shall keep a dog, or fire arms, or gunpowder. He 
shall not carry, keep, or own at the College, a sword, dirk, sword-cane, or 
any deadly weapon; nor shall he use fire arms without permission from 
the President. 

14. No Student shall have spirituous or fermented liquors in his room, 
or even make use of them without permission from a Professor or Tutor. 

15. A Student who shall be guilty of intoxication, shall be admonish- 
ed, suspended, or dismissed, according to the nature and aggravation of his. 
conduct, 

16. No Student shall go to a tavern, beer house, or any such place, for 
the purposes of entertainment or amusement, without permission from 
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with persons of publicly bad character, under penalty of admonition, and 
if the practice be continued, of suspension or dismission. 

17, If any clubs or combinations of the Students shall at any time take 
place, either for resisting the authority of the College, interfering in its 
government, showing disrespect te the Faculty, or to any- of its members, 
or for concealing or executing any evil design, the Faculty are empower- 
ed and directed to break up all such combinations as soon as discovered, 
and to inflict a severer punishment on each individual than if the offence 
intended had been committed in his individual capacity, whatever be the 
number concerned, or whatever be the consequence to the College. 

18. Written petitions for the removal of grievances, shall not be signed 
by more than three Students. 

19, All profane and indecent language shall be utterly excluded from 
the University. ‘The Student who is guilty of using such language, and 
on being warned, stij! perseveres, shall be admonished, suspended or dis- 
missed, according to his offence. 

20. Every Student who shall send to any person a challenge or mes- 
sage, either in writing or otherwise, purporting to be a challenge to fight 
a duel, shall be expelled. 

21. Every Student who shall be the bearer of any challenge or message, 
in writing or otherwise, purporting to be a challenge, or in any wise re- 
lating thereto; or who shall, either directly or indirectly, have any agency 
therein, or in the duel that may be the consequence thereof, shall be ex- 
pelled. . 

22. Any Student who shall accept a challenge to fight a duel, shall be 
expelled. 

23. When a Student shall be expelled in consequence of the provisions 
of these Ordinances, he shall be delivered over to the civil authority, to 
be prosecuted as the law directs. 

24, he Faculty of the University shall have full cognizance and ju- 
risdiction of all offences under these laws against the atrocious act of du- 
eliing, and are hereby authorised and required to carry the same into full 
effect. 

25. No Student shall associate or keep company with any person ex- 
pelled from the University, on pain of such punishment as the Faculty 
shall think proper to inflict, consistently with the laws of the Institution; 
provided that such punishment shall not extend to expulsion. 

26. On Sunday the Students shall refrain from their ordinary diversions 
and exercises. ‘They shall not fish, hunt or swim, nor shall they walk 
far abroad, but shall observe a quiet,and orderly behaviour. 


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27. If any Student shall use any indecent gesture or language to any 
other Student or person, he shall be liable to be admonished. 

28. If any Student shall be convicted of lying, he shall be admonished, 
sus pended or dismissed, according to the degree of the offence. 

29, If any Student, on being requested by any member of the Faculty 
to open the door of the chamber where he is, shall refuse or delay to eom- 
ply, the door may be forced open and the Student compelled to make good” 
the damage, and be otherwise punished as the Facalty shall judge pro- 
per. 

30. If any Student shall be sent for by any member of the Faculty, and 
shall fail to come, he shall be held guilty of contempt of authority, and 
be punished accordingly. 

31. The Students shall keep their rooms clean, and shall not put or 
procure to be introduced into the College, filth of any kind. Nor shall 
they throw on the outside of the College, against the walls, or around the 
buildings, any sort of dirt or rubbish, under such penalty as the offence 
may deserve, 

$2. No shouting, whistling, dancing, or any boisterous noise shall be 
permitted in the passages or rooms of the College at any time, upon such 
penalty as the nature of the offence may, in the judgment of the Faculty, 
properly incur. The Students shall not station themselves either singly, 
or in groups in the doors or passages, or any where among the buildings, 
especially in the hours of study ; and at any time when it shall appear ne- 
cessary to the order of the College, such assemblies may be broken up and 
dispersed by any member of the Faculty. 

33. If a Student shall strike another Student in anger, or in any man- 
ner be guilty of a breach of the peace, it is a high offence, and shall be 
punished as such. 

34. The absence of a Student from prayers, or from his room after the 
ringing of the bell, without leave in the evening, shall be registered by the 
Clerk of the Faculty. Once a week the absentees shall be regularly call- 
ed to show their reasons of absence, and when the absences of a Student. 
from prayers, from recitation, or from his room, especially in the evening, 
become frequent or numerous, he may be cited to answer for habitual de- 
linquency, and such penalty be adopted as shall be judged necessary by 
the Faculty. 

35. A Student who shall reside within two miles of the University in 
the vacation, shall be subject to the laws of the Institution in regard to 
moral conduct, so as to be responsible for violations of them, when he shall 
apply for admission in the ensuing session. 


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CHAPTER VI. 


Punishments. 

The punishments authorized for enforcing the laws shall be, 

1. Private admonition by a member of the Faculty. 

2. Admonition before the Faculty, by the President, or in his absence; 
by any one of their members whom the Faculty shall appoint. 

3. Admonition before the class to which the Student belongs, by the 
President, or in his absence, by one of the members of the Faculty. 

4. Public admonition before all the Students. This may be accompa: 
nied with a public confession of the fault, and a promise of reformation. 

5. Suspension for a fixed time, not exceeding six months. This may 
be attended with admonition before the Trustees. 

6. Dismission by order. 

7. Expulsion; which punishment, except in cases of duelling, shall 
not he inflicted but with the sanction of five Trustees assembled. 

8. When any Student shall be suspended, dismissed, or expelled, the 
President or presiding Professor shall address a letrer to the parent or 
guardian of such Student, informing him of the event and its cause. 

9. Any Student who may be suspended or dismissed by the Faculty, 
shall not during his suspension, or during the remainder of the session in 
which he is dismissed, reside within two miles of the University, upon 
pain of a change of sentence by the Trustees into that of expulsion. To 
this, exception is admissible, when the parents of the Student live within 
the assigned limits. 

10. When a Student shall so persist in habits of indolence and neglect 
of collegiate duties, or in disorderly behaviour, that there is no hope of re- 
claiming him to habits of industry and order, it shall be the duty of the 
President to address a letter to the parent or guardian of such Student, 
stating the circumstances.and advising him to withdraw him from the In- 
stitution ; provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall be 
so construed as to prevent the Faculty from suspending any Student when: 
the same shall appear necessary. 


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CHAPTER VII. 
Miscellaneous Regulations. 

1. At the beginning of every session, the Students shall pay in advance 
one dollar each as room rent, and at the same time deposit with the Bus 
sar three dollars each, to repair any damage they may commit; which 
sum, as far as unexpended, shall be returned at the end of the session. 


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but if the damage shall exceed the sum deposited, the author shall pay the 
excess. 

2. A Student shall not live in the College buildings in the vacation, 
without permission expressly obtained from the Bursar, or in his absence, 
from some member of the Faculty. The officer is expected to register the 
name of the Student thus permitted to reside, who is considered as pledg- | 
ing himself to make good all damages which he may commit. For all 
damages done in the room which he occupies, he is responsible, whether 
he cause them personally or not; and he may be directed to relinquish 
his residence in the buildings at any time in the vacetion. 

3. The Students on leaving their rooms at the end of the session, or at 
any other time during the vacation, shall put the keys of their rooms in- 
to the hands of the Bursar. 

4. It shall be the duty of the Bursar, at the beginning of every vaca- 
tion, to have the doors and windows of the public buildings carefully fas- 
tened, where they are not inhabited. And if damages be done which he 
could not prevent, and of which the authors are unknown, he shall repair 
them at the expense of the Board. 

5. It is recommended to the Students to be plain in their dress, but it 
is required of them always to appear neat and cleanly. If any Student 
be negligent in this respect, it shall be the duty of the College officers to 
admonish him for it, and if he persevere, to report him to the Faculty. 

6. If a Student be present at the beginning of a session, he may claim 
the room occupied by him at the end of the preceding session ; but if not, 
it may be inhabited by the first occupant. More than two persons may 
not live in one room at any time, without permission specially obtained. 

7. No Student, without permission from the President or presiding 
Professor, shall go beyond the prescribed limits in study hours, or at any 
other time when the bell may call him to his duty. 

8. A Student shall not receive visitors into hisroom, nor shall he visit 
others in the hours of study, without leave from a member of the Faculty. 

- 9, No Student shall disturb or attempt any imposition on any of his 
fellow Students in any manner whatever ; and every Student shall pre- 
serve order and decorum in his own room, and shall be responsible for all 
disorder committed in it, unless he give information, when in his power, 
of the person or persons from whom it proceeded. 

10. The Faculty may interdict any house in the village as improper 
fur the reception of Students as boarders, on account of the irregularities 
in which they are permitted or tempted to live, or the disorderly and per- 
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11, A Student may not occupy a room for residence out of College, till 
each of the rooms shall have two inmates. But Professors may receive 
Students to reside in their houses, and the Faculty may permit a Student 
to live in the village, when they shall judge his situation requires such” 
indulgence. 

12. At the ringing of the bell the first time in the oiitind "the Stu- 
dents shall rise to prepare for business. As soon as the bell shall ring a 
second time, they shall repair to the hall without delay, and attend prayers. 


CHAPTER VIII. 
Of the Librarian and Library. 


1. No person but a Trustee or Member of the Faculty shall at any time 
have access to the Library, without the presence of the Librarian or some 
officer of the College. . 

. The Senior Tutor shall be the Librarian, and at the end of every 
session, shall present to the Faculty a written report on the state of the 
Library. 

3. Such books as, by a determination of the Faculty, ought not to be 
taken out by the Students, may be consulted by them in the Library, on 
such days, and within such hours, as shall be appointed by the Faculty. 

4, A Student may not, at any time, take down a book from the shelves 
of the Library. The Librarian alone is to deliver it to him, and return it 
to its place. 

5. When a Student shall take a book out of the Library, he shall sign 
a receipt, in which the book shall be specified by the Librarian. 

6. A volume shall not be kept out of the Library more than one week, 
without being returned to the Librarian, and the receipt for it renewed. _ 
If any other person shall want the volume at the end of that time, the one 
who has already had it shall not then take it out anew. 

7. When a book shall be given out or returned, the Librarian shall ex- 
amine it, to see if it be damaged or defaced; and if a Student shall deface 
or damage a hook belonging to the Library, he shall pay according to the 
damage done, as estimated by the Faculty, even to the re-placing of the — 
set. Ifhe shall lose it, he shall pay to the Librarian its value, as estimated 
by the Faculty, or else he shall replace it ag above. Ifhe shall fail to re- | 
turn it in two wecks after taking it out of the library, he may be judged 
to have lost it, and the Faculty may proceed accordingly. If a Student 
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he may be admonished, suspended or dismissed, as the nature of the case 
may require. 

8. The Librarian shall keep a cablonue of all the books of the Library. 

If any book shall be presented to the University, the name and residence 
of the donor shall be recorded. 

9. The Librarian shall appoint a day and hour for delivering and re- 
ceiving books, and shall attend once a week for these purposes. 

10. While the Students are attending at the Library, they shall observe 
an orderly deportment. 

11. A Student shall not lend a book which he has taken out a the 

Library, without permission from the Librarian. 

_ 12, It shall be the duty of each Professor and Tutor in the University, 
to keep a regular account of the scholarship of each Student during his 
course, noting his regularity and moral conduct, and at the end of each 
session, to furnish the parent or guardian of the Student with an ab- 

' stract or account of the same, and cause this account to be laid before the 

Board of Trustecs at the Public Anniversary Examinations. 


CHAPTER IX. . 
The Literary Societies. 

i, The two Literary Societies having by former compact, agreed to ap- 
portion between them the College Buildings, and to make good the dam- 
ages and dilapidations they may sustain, the following partition shall be 
recognized and respected, viz: the South ends of the East and West 
Buildings shall be occupied by the members of the Dialectic Society, and 
the North ends by those of the Philanthropic; the division of the South 
‘Building, as heretofore made by the Societies, shall be still maintained. 


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